Once upon a time Chuck Carter helped create Myst and 26 other video games including the Command and Conquer and Red Alert franchises, Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2, Nox, Pacman World Rally, Kyrandia and many others – Carter worked on TV shows like Babylon5 (as a…

Welcome to Issue 9 Blender is a comprehensive and free 3D modelling and animation suite. It has a wide set of functions that allow creation of video games, 3D printed models, excellent still artwork and animated movies. It’s installable on many platforms. Python scripting allows…

This is a special session of the podcast where we go in depth in learning about behind the scenes of Renderosity, one of the most well known digital artist communities and digital products stores on the web. I speak with Tommy Lemon, vice president of…

Welcome to Issue 8 What is one of the most boldest human endeavours of our time? It is the exploration and settlement of Mars. What an audacious thought, but as the Mars Society mentions as part of their tagline “We’re ready”. And we are. There…

http://traffic.libsyn.com/3dartdirect/Session38.mp3 In this podcast episode, we’re focussing on the subject of the exploration and colonisation of Mars, which is part of our overall theme for our forthcoming Digital Art Live magazine issue 8. We’ll feature artwork on the colonisation of space . I was very privileged…

Welcome to Issue 7 Lindsay Wagner who played the original “Bionic Woman” in the 1970s television series was a ground breaking female superhero. She created a much needed capable feminist hero working as an undercover agent with super human abilities and the series was admired…

Welcome to Issue 6 “Sitting on our shoulders is the most complicated object in the known universe” said Michio Kaku, who is a well known futurist and theoretical physicist. Our brain consumes only 30 or 40 watts of power, yet has a capability of more…

In this session of the 3D Art Direct podcast we interview Oshyan Greene, the business manager of Planetside Software, which produces the well regarded Terragen 3, a great solution for rendering and animating realistic natural environments. In this session we’re going to talk about the anticipated Terragen…

Welcome to Issue 5 Carl Sagan who presented the original Cosmos TV series reminded us of the grandeur and scale of the universe in which we live: “Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home, the Earth,” he said and also “this…

Welcome to Issue 4 This issue is centred on rendering and examines rendering options in Poser and DAZ Studio, including the Reality plugin which can be used for both. Under the bonnet, the algorithms and techniques for rendering are complex. They deal with at least…